22 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Captain, afterwards General, Emmett. The notes were pub- 

 lished in 1833. A copy of Erasmus's Greek Testament, Paris, 

 1546, with several autographs and annotations of Ponet, 

 Bishop of Winchester, and Sandys, afterwards Archbishop of 

 York, is a relic of the Marian persecution, both having taken 

 refuge at Strasburg, where Ponet died, and where the book 

 must have come into the possession of his companion in exile. 

 Another interesting purchase is Lord Grenville's copy of his 

 translations in Latin verse, with letters from Lord Holland, 

 Rogers, and others inserted. Among similar acquisitions are 

 to be named the original edition of Sarpi's History of the 

 Council of Trent, with MS. notes by Roger Twysden ; the 

 second edition of Lord Clarendon's History, with MS. notes 

 accusing the editors of garbling the text, which seem to have 

 been written by a member of the St. John family ; Samuel 

 Clarke's " Scripture Justification," 1698, with copious MS. 

 notes by Isaac Watts ; Stillingfleet's Answer to Locke, with 

 the autograph of Locke himself ; Walter's Voyage of Lord 

 Anson, with important MS. annotations by J. E. Naish, a 

 person evidently well acquainted with the navigation and 

 commerce of the Eastern seas ; White's Selborne, with MS. 

 notes by Coleridge, interesting as proofs of his accurate 

 observation of nature ; proof sheets of several of Churchill's 

 poems, with MS. notes and corrections by him and Wilkes ; 

 and Thomson's Seasons, illustrated with 13 water-colour 

 drawings by J. Powell. Among other curiosities the most 

 important are a copy and proof of the Greek History of 

 Ancient Egypt forged in the name of the Greek historian 

 TJranius by Constantine Simonides, printed at the Oxford 

 University Press, in 1856, for Professor Dindorf, of Berlin, 

 but immediately recalled and suppressed. Bound up with 

 these are several rare pamphlets relating to the transaction, 

 and a curious letter in Greek from Simonides to Mr. Coxe, the 

 Bodleian Librarian. Also, a remarkably fine illustrated Corean 

 work, containing a description of the ceremonies performed 

 on the occasion of the Queen of Corea being " capped," in the 

 year 1869. 



Of collections on special subjects, excluding those to be 

 described under the head of donations, the most important 

 are the collection of correspondence, reports, &c., relating 

 to the Caxton Exhibition of 1877, formed by the late William 

 Blades, Esq., the biographer of Caxton, accompanied by the 

 large paper copy of the Exhibition Catalogue, copiously inter- 

 leaved with engravings, facsimiles of the Caxton press, and 

 MS. documents ; about 2,500 tracts relating to Yorkshire, 

 purchased at the sale of the library of the late Edward 

 Hailstone, Esq., nearly 700 of which have been presented as 

 duplicates to the Leeds Free Library ; and upwards of 1,000 

 tracts chiefly relating to Italian mineral waters, purchased 

 from George Jervis, Esq., Director of the Turin Industrial 

 Museum. Purchases of this description also include a very 



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